Beaches, BBQs and booze. That’s the typical agenda for celebrating our nation’s holiday over this long weekend. But in all the hype, we often overlook that – for various reasons – not everyone gets to down several hot dogs and bottles of beer. This year my ability to eat and drink has been slightly curtailed.…
This was originally posted in 2012, which would turn out to be my last Christmas with my mother. Although we usually had some sort of seafood when I was growing up, we’d been trying to do the Feast of the Seven Fishes over the last several years. For this occasion, I took care of all…
“Ugh, corn again.” That’s what we found ourselves saying when we saw the 2 ears in our CSA each week. After 3 months of corn on a weekly basis, no matter how sweet those kernels were, nor how much we tried to transform them into something else, it was overkill. The same was true…
In the summer heat it seems as if everything should slow down. We should be able to take a breath and relax. But instead it feels like it’s been a busier summer than usual. We’ve had lots of BBQs with friends, a few beach days, went camping for a night and went on a long…
For the food-obsessed and locavore crazed, spring means ramps, dandelion greens, wild chives, fiddlehead ferns, and eventually peas and morel mushrooms. Because ramps, which have a short growing season, appear first, the hype around how to use this wild onion has reached insane proportions. Ramps were in such demand that they cost as much as…
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